[Northkeep] deer hide tanning

[Marc Carlson]

>From: "Montega Blackdragon" <montega_blackdragon at hotmail.com>
>I posted this a long time ago and kept it in case it was needed again...

And I'm sure it will come up again :)

Just to be really anal and pedantic, what you are describing is "tawing" (or 
"curing"), not "tanning".  "Tanning" is the result of a chemical change in 
the hide into leather.  Tawing -is- however a perfectly authentic medieval 
way of handling hide (in fact I really need some tawed goatskin if I can 
ever find any).

By the same token, of course, most "chrome tanned leathers" are neither 
tanned nor leather which is what happens when the common language grows away 
from the techical jargon.

BTW, call it what you want - I just like pointing this stuff out :)

Marc/Diarmaid

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